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The 6th Dalai Lama was kidnapped and deposed by Mongolian forces. He disappeared and was either killed or somehow escaped and survived. The 6th Dalai Lama is also well known for his poems and songs that continue to be popular not only in modern-day Tibet but also among Tibetan speaking communities in Nepal, India and all across China.
This brought most of Mongolia into the Dalai Lama's sphere of influence, founding a spiritual empire which largely survives to the modern age. [39] After being given the Mongolian name 'Dalai', [40] he returned to Tibet to found the great monasteries of Lithang in Kham, eastern Tibet and Kumbum in Amdo, north-eastern Tibet. [41]
Guangzong Temple was first built by Ahwang Duoerji (阿旺多尔济), a disciple of the 6th Dalai Lama, in 1757, in the reign of Qianlong Emperor (1736–1795) the Qing dynasty (1644–1911). It initially called "Ahda Ximai Deli Temple" (阿大西迈德里庙). The body of the 6th Dalai Lama was preserved in the temple.
The child is one of a pair of identical twin boys and was born in Washington, D.C. to Mongolian parents, thereby giving him American citizenship. [6] To protect the identity of the 10th Jebtsundamba Khutughtu, the twins, Achildai Altannar and Agudai Altannar, are almost always seen in public together. [ 6 ]
The title "Dalai Lama" was first bestowed by Altan Khan upon Sonam Gyatso in 1578, when Altan Khan was a Chinese Prince of Shunyi during the Ming Dynasty (Wang, 顺义王) of China. The spiritual title of "Dalai Lama" was derived from the Mongolian Dalai-yin qan (or Dalaiin khan) one. [4]
Almost all Mongolian cities have grown up on the sites of monasteries. Ikh Huree, as Ulaanbaatar was then known, was the seat of the preeminent living Buddha of Mongolia (the 8th Jebtsundamba Khutuktu, also known as the Bogdo Gegen and later as the Bogd Khan), who ranked third in the ecclesiastical hierarchy after the Dalai Lama and the Panchen ...
In 1652, the Dalai Lama of Tibet passed through Hohhot and was stationed in the Dazhao Temple. The bronze statue of Dalai Lama was also provided in the Dazhao Temple. The Qing Dynasty’s Hohhot Zasakda Lama Printing Office was opened in the Grand Salary. In 1698, the Kangxi Emperor appointed Nezito to the Lama at the Bada Temple in Hohhot.
The thirteenth Dalai Lama died in December 1933, and Reting Rinpoche became Regent of Tibet until a new Dalai Lama was discovered and crowned. In 1936, because of the inability of the Mongolian lamas to proclaim the discovery of the ninth Khutughtu, Reting Rinpoche recognised Jampal Namdol Chökyi Gyaltsen, then aged four, as the reincarnation ...